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  • JGS Toronto Event: “The Not So Mythological Village of Chelm”

    Shaarei Shomayim Congregation 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Steven Brock Shaarei Shomayim Congregation Sisterhood Hall Doors Open at 7:30 pm Jewish folklore is filled with stories about the village of Chelm. Outsiders consider the villagers as fools, but they know that they are the great sages of the world and that their logic always makes perfect sense […]

  • Store Front Stories

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  • JGS Toronto Panel: Comparison of Genealogy Software: Advantages and Shortcomings

    Shaarei Shomayim Congregation 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    A Panel of experienced genealogists from our JGS membership will present their views on family tree software.  They will delve into the pluses and minuses of each. Shaarei Shomayim Congregation Room to be Announced Doors open 10:00 am

  • The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust

    Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Annual Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies Lecture “The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust" Lisa Leff (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and American University) Date: Monday, January 27th at 4:00pm, a reception will precede the event starting […]

  • JGS: Lithuania-Latvia-Belarus SIG

    Family History Centre 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Please note the next Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus SIG will be held on January 30th, 2020 at the Family History Center at 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm Please add to your calendars, social media, etc.. Henry Blumberg will  discuss: “My hundred and fifty year journey from Grobina., Latvia to Greenville, Mississippi, […]

  • Sugar, Slavery and the Sephardim of Barbados 1654-1934

    Shaarei Shomayim Congregation 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Simon Kreindler   Shaarei Shomayim Congregation  470 Glencairn Avenue Entrance: North (parking lot) doors Doors open at 10:00 am The Portuguese brought sugar cane from their Atlantic colonies to Brazil in the early 1500s and within a relatively short time, that country became the largest sugar producer in the […]